NOW That's What I Call Music was an album they'd release every few months that had all the hits of those past few months. Every single one hit wonder could be found on these CDs, and they were all fire. This was kind of like what a Spotify Playlist was back in the day. Instead of being able to search for millions of different playlists, you had to wait to see what was on Now. It may sound inconvenient, but Now never let you down. Those albums were always bangers.
The best part about the NOW That's What I Call Music series was the commercials. They would play all five or ten seconds of the songs back to back, and it always sounded like some kind of crazy mashup. There are some songs that I still remember only by connecting them together.